Stock-gate.



j]. WIELER.

' $100 GATE APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1919.

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J. WIELER.

STOCK GATE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9.1919. 1,326,383. Patented Dec. 30,1919.

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Svwawtoz vfawfifl ieiu JACOB WIIE'LER, OF ELDORADO, KANSAS.

STOCK-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

Application filed May 9, 1919. Serial No. 295,847.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB VVIELER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Eldorado, in the county of Butler, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Gates; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,

My invention has reference to the class of cattle handling and more especially, it relates to novel and useful improvements in stock gates, or gates designed to facilitate the handling of stock on the farms or in stock yards so as to allow the cattle to be run or let into the various pens for temporary storage or keeping, or discharged therefrom for loading or shipping, as Well as to separate stock of different ages, weights and kind.

The invention further comprehends the provision of an improved stock gate which is adapted to be placed at the juncture of fences running at right angles to each other, so as to provide a gate serving as an en trance or exit for each, and providing an inclosure which may lead into a pasture or parking, or the like, or to a runway for discharging cattle from a train or stock car, or loading the same, so that a quick passage of the stock may be effected, the device preventing the passage of stock under ordinary circumstances while permitting the free passage ofpersons, such as for instance, the keeper of the gate, if so provided.

The invention comprises a novel arrangement of posts and gates hung or hinged to swing relative thereto, so as to provide an inclosure which will accommodate a person but not an animal, thereby facilitating the use of the device for the purposes stated, while the gates are so constructed as to prevent the stock and particularly hogs, from opening the same, the device being simple in construction, strong and durable in use.

/Vith these general objects in view and others that will appear asthe nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel structure, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and set forth in the appended claims.

In draw li e ar ers o f ence indicate similar parts throughout the several views, and

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved stock gate;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation-thereof;

Fig. 3 is an end view of the device;

Fig. 1- is a transverse section, taken on the line l-1 of Fig. 1 of the drawings;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional View, taken on the line 55 of Fig. 2 of the drawings, and

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail View of the adjustment means or tightener for a brace employed in connection with one of the individual gates going to make up the complete structure.

Referring to the drawings, 10 and 11 designate two fences disposed at right angles or substantially so, so as to intersect for the purpose of forming a series of adjacent pens or inclosures 12, 13, 14 and 15, either as used in stock yards, or on a farm, in which latter case, they may constitute pastures, or the like, or may lead to the barn or stable, to a siding adjacent to a railway track for the purpose of loading and unloading stock, or otherwise. In the instance of having one of the pens communicating With a siding, the pen 12 is used and constitutes the entrance or eXit through which communication is established with the other pens or inclosures, or it may be the outlet for the pens in a stocky-ard.

The improved gate is disposed at the point of intersection of the fences, and embodies a pair of spaced posts 16 and 17, suitably anchored and connected at their upper ends by means of a cross brace 18 provided with a longitudinal arcuate lot 19. These posts are also provided with transverse openings 20 near their upper ends, in which are journaled upon suitable hearings or shafts 21, pulleys 22 of the grooved type adapted to take a rope or chain, while the outer vertical faces of the posts are provided with grooves 23 forming guides for a purpose which will be hereinafter more fully made apparent, although I wish to have it understood that said guides may be formed in the post, or in any other approved manner well known in the art.

The pair of posts 16 and 17 are disposed in line with the fence 10, or interposed therein or in two fences disposed in alinement, and similarly disposed with respect to the nc ill ia m apf thep c b e' the posts 16 and 17, are posts 24: and 25, also suitably anchored, the post 24 being disposed edgewise and the post 25 fiatwise with respect to the posts 16 and 17 and the open ing therebetween. The posts 16 and 17 are provided with bases 26 projecting toward the post 25 and cooperating with horizontally projecting and vertically apertured plates 27 eated in recesses in the posts above the base plates or bases 26, to pivotally receive the pintles 28 of gates 29 and 30 therein. The post 25 is provided at either side, with base plates or bases 31 and the gates 29 and 30 swing thereon against the post, with their beveled edges 32 engaging the opposed edges of the post so that the inner faces will lie contiguously, so as to prevent an animal. such as a hog, from opening the gates. The gates are shown as comprising connected vertical end members and intermediate horizontal members, but it is to be understood that any preferred construction of gate may be employed with the end members at the free ends thereof beveled as specified. The gates may also be connected by a hook and eye connection 33, or otherwise anchored in closed positions to the post 25, diverging toward the posts 16 and 17, or conversely, converging toward the post 25, so that the gates are disposed diagonally of the corners of the inclosures 13 and 14.

Disposed at the inner edge of the post 2st, is a base or base plate 3 1 and a bearing plate 35 carried by the post and spaced above the plate or base 34:, to pivotally or hingedly mount a gate 36 through the medium of its pintles 37, said gate having its vertical member 38 extended upwardly to engage through the arcuateslot 19, for movement therein, in an arc concentric to the pivot of the gate to engage the posts 16 or 17 at either side of the gateway. These latter posts are provided on their inner face with strips 39 extending at an angle therefrom in opposite directions spaced from the edges of the posts 16 and 17 to form obtuse angles therewith at the side provided with the post 2 1 and acute angles at the opposite side, said strips also being disposed substantially at right angles to the gates 29 and 30 and out side of the are of the circle in which the free end of the gate 36 operates, so as to provide seats therefor. The inner edges of the strips 39 project beyond the vertical member and thus form hoglocks to prevent opening of the gate by a hog or other animal, though particularly the former, inasmuch as the hog cannot get behind the gate, when disposed at either side.

The upper end of the member 38 projects above the cross brace and has journaled therein, a roller 40 which operates on the cross brace and serves to prevent sagging thereof. This is further prevented by means of a guy rod 41 disposed in an inclined position or diagonally between the post 2e and the top cross member of the gate 36, the rod being swiveled to the post 24E and having interposed therein, a tap or turnbuckle 42, so that the brace can be tightened to insure proper hang of the gate.- The gate 36 is normally held toward the post 17 by means of a weight 43 which operates in the groove 23 thereof and is connected to the gate at the free end or vertical'member 38 thereof at its outer face, through the medium of a rope or chain constituting a flexible connection between the parts mentioned, said connection operating over the pulley in the post 17, so as to guide the connection and prevent undue wear thereon when the gate is swung to the opposite positions mentioned, that is, toward the post 16' and automatically by the weight 13 toward the post 17.

At the side of the post 24 toward the post 17, toward which the gate 36 is normally held, there is provided a base or base plate 45 and a bearing plate 16 thereabove to p1votally receive the pintles 17 of a gate 18, which is thus mounted to swing toward the post 17, on the outer portion of the ad] acent edge of which is aflixed, a beveled strip 49 forming an abutment for the gate and also serving as a hoglock, by reason of the fact that the strip projects from the outer edge of the vertical member at the free edge of the gate when the latter is closed, while the gate is limited in its movement by the post 17 inwardly of the strip. Barbs 50 are provided in the lower portion of the gate 36 so as to keep outside stock out.

1 It will thus be seen that by reason of the construction provided, an inclosed space is provided between the posts and the gate form means of controlling the entrance and exit of persons or animals through the same, This space is only large enough to acconirno date a person standing and therefore, ifone of the gates is left open, an animal can enter but must back out and therefore, cannot be retained therein. However, if a person enters through the gate 36, he steps between the gates 29 and 30 and by shutting the gate 36, can pass out through the gate 48, and vice versa, or he can pass out through the gates 29 or 30. Also, when entering through the gates 29 or 30, exit can be made through any of the other gates. When loading out of the pen or inclosure 12, it is done directly and none of the other gates need be opened, but

when the stock is to be loaded out of the pens or inclosures 13 and 14, their respective gates are opened to establish communication or passage through the gateway 36 with the latter open. However, when it is desired to load out of the pen or inclosure 15, the gate 36 is closed and the gate 18 opened together with either of the gates 29 or 30, after which the gate 48 is closed and gate 36 opened to permit the passage of the stool; into the pen 12. The device will also be found of advantage in separating stock of different ages, Weight or kind, and will be found reliable, strong and durable.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America is:

1. The combination with a pair of spaced posts, a third post spaced to one side of said pair, gates hinged to said pair of posts and engaging at their free ends said third post, a fourth post spaced to the other side of said pair of posts, a gate hinged to said fourth post and engaging at its free end one of the pair of posts, and a second gate hinged to the fourth post and adapted to be engaged at its free end with either of said pair of posts.

2. In a stock gate, the combination with a pair of spaced posts, a third post spaced to one side of said pair and intermediately therebetween, gates hinged to said pairs of posts and engaging said third post at their free ends, a fourth post spaced to the other side of said pair of posts and intermediately therebetween, a gate hinged to said fourth post and engaging one of the pair of posts at its free end, and a second gate hinged to the fourth post and adapted to swing into engagement with either of said pair of posts,

said latter posts having angularly disposed strips at the inner faces thereof, as and for the purposes specified.

3. A stock gate comprising spaced posts, a cross brace connecting the same at their upper ends, and having an arcuate slot therein, another pair of spaced posts one at either side and between the first posts, a gate hinged to one of the latter and having a vertical portion at its free end operating through the slot, a roller journaled on the upper end of the vertical portion resting on the cross brace, a brace'between the gate and the post, means to normally swing the gate toward one of the first posts, gates between the first named posts and one of the latter posts to open away from each other, means for securing the last-named gates in closed positions, and another gate between the re maining of the latter posts carrying said hinged gatewith the vertical portion, and

one of the first posts, as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB WIELER.

Witnesses OLIN EUGENE CooN, J. C. HOYT. 

